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  1. The beginning half has been pretty good for me. I've increased my fitness and capabilities across the board. I've set and broken three different goals in both the 5k and 10k races. Competed in 3 5k races and 2 10k races. In all of them, I placed around the 75th percentile. Never the fastest, good lord Tampa has some fast as fuck runners, but my goal is usually to beat myself and place above average. Mission Accomplished. I've now set my first half-marathon for October 29th, training begins next week with these goals: A: 1:57 (8:50/mi) B: 2:01 (9:15/mi) C: Fucking finish Beyond the running, I've added weight training and low aerobic to round out my fitness routines. How goes everyone else's training going??
  2. I subscribe to the Legal Eagle YouTube channel and he recently covered this:
  3. I'm off today, the official internal learning day, Monday and Tuesday. I also took Wednesday off as that's my daughter's birthday.
  4. We go to see and do. On most vacations, I need a rest when we get back. The idea is we're visiting places we probably won't get back to so do the extra effort to see all you can without compromising our efforts. We just got back from a 12-day vacation to Vancouver and Alaska (cruise). Our trip was 4 full days in Vancouver, 7 days at sea, and a travel day. We visited all the main city sights in Vancouver, Westend, Yaletown, Gastown, and Chinatown. Walked the entire seawall around Stanley Park, watched the sunset on Sunset Beach, shopped at Granville Island, visited two museums, hiked Grose Mountain, Capilano Suspension Bridge park, a morning at Queen Elizabeth Park, and an entire day road trip up the Sea to Sky Highway including two trail hikes, the Sea to Sky Gondola, and dinner in Whistler in the Olympic village. We relaxed on the sea days on the cruise but went straight back into the uber-touring when we hit ports. On the cruise, we did a private boat tour into Tracy Arm Fjord, a helicopter ride across the mountains landing on the glacier ice fields where we hiked and took a dog sled ride, White Pass railway trip into the Klondike, a Sea plane ride to an inlet for more hiking and wildlife spotting, and probably the lightest day was a Lumberjack show and first nation village tour in Ketchikan. It was marvelous, we also slept very well every night. Hell, I did a full hour and a half in the gym on the ship every morning before the day's activities. My 5yo was a super trooper and loved every minute of it. On the sea days and most nights, she was partying it up at the kids club on the ship too!
  5. We have so much available: natural springs and swimming holes galore, white sand beaches, emerald waters, towering skyscrapers, and sleepy, kitschy beach towns. The mouse has its largest house here, Universal put all the cool parks here, five very large cruise ship ports, and rockets blast off almost weekly that you can track and watch from practically anywhere. We have 13 Division I Universities and a booming tech corridor between Tampa and Orlando. We have amazing sports teams that are successful more often than not within easy viewing, the Tampa Bay Lightning (F***k yeah!), Buccaneers, and Rays. On a personal level, we have one of the best standalone cancer hospitals in the country. There is a lot to love about my state and I actively partake in most of it.
  6. That's the nature of most of these cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc) in my experience. Since every service is something potentially billable some projects end up being a Rube-Goldberg mishmash of 5-6 services just to accomplish a single project scope.
  7. Came back from vacation to find about 15 Hungarian wax and 5 Ghost peppers ready to grab. Both pepper plants are bordering on very large this year so I expect an excellent producing crop all year long. I've planted HW peppers for a few years and have had luck getting about 12-16 lbs per season from these prodigious little growers. First time growing ghost peppers, the plant is much smaller than my HG, but is over the full-sized plant specs I find online. These peppers are slower to mature to ripen but I have about 20 on the plant now in varying states of green -> red. I've had 4 bunches of basil pulled and either eaten fresh or dried, I'm up to an 8oz container of dried this year's leaf crumbles. Sage is about 2 bundles so far, as with rosemary. I've cooked a lot of steak at the beginning of the nice weather as well as a bunch of sage smashes for the wife and neighbors at the above steak cook-outs, so not much of either made it past fresh to dry. Parsley got only a single bundle until the deers discovered the plans and now I grow a small batch away from my garden to keep them satisfied and not in the flower bed. Other plants are green, and flowery. As they should.
  8. I rarely. My training shoes are Saucony Rides, I typically pay around 80-120 for them as I burn through a few pairs. I've tried Nike Pegasus too and liked them but my limit with them is about 10 miles. They're a bit too narrow. Same price though is my spend.
  9. We still are! Immigration has been put on hold a bit. Last year I took a new internal role for my company thay came with a rather significant pay increase. The job will be a major portion of our new initiatives to merge all operations, europe/asia/northA/southA, into a single cloud group. There's been talk already of needing multiple AZs just in Europe as we mobilize and a senior leadership position based in Europe has been discussed. Either way, as usual money has kind of answered the problem. If I make as much as I do now, hopefully more, over the rest of my life, however long that ends up being, then the family is set.
  10. I've been out of town for a bit and heads down on a few serious projects, both personal and professional, prior to that so I might have missed some of the threads. With that said, @Square Wheels I work in AWS every day, both professionally and personally, I offer you my services in whatever you may need.
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  12. I don't use antivirus software anymore. Most reading I've done shows that Windows Defender is just as effective and built into Windows. Besides that, I keep my network behind adguard home (docker installation on my home router), a website-blocking software that blocks malicious sites and code, the most common way viruses/malware would be installed on my system.
  13. I love Sci-Fi in all its forms. I usually lean towards Hard Sci-Fi and Space Opera with quite a bit of dystopian sub-genre mixed in. I listen to a lot of audiobooks when running, going through the Adrian Tchaikovsky expansive library of novels. In print, I finished Joel Sheperd's series The Spiral Wars and The Cassandra Kresnov. I started Mark Wayne McGinnis's series called USS Hamilton (book 2/6) and Jeffery Haskell Grimm's War series (book 3/6) I got to the point that my listening was making my public library and Audible audiobook system become expensive and unmanageable. I made my own version that hosts all my library and has a request process that allows family and friends who have accounts to add authors/books to the system to be retrieved for the library.
  14. I had not seen this before but it is awesome.
  15. You play a dangerous game when you go from reporting to entertainment fueled by hysteria and anger. When you whip up a mob, do not be surprised if the mob ends up pointing the pitch forks at you.
  16. We just redid our front. Went to all local plants that support a healthy bee population. The beekeepers about a mile from our house are probably happy that the flurry of bees around us has been extra prodigious. Thankfully the deer population either doesn't like these or has yet to notice...
  17. Hell here's where they consider the bad part of town with all those foreigners bringing down home prices and doing all the drugs and crimes. In six months, only showing violent crimes or thefts of any type, 668 reported cases. Add drugs up to schedule two and you only double it.
  18. This. I just searched and had to go back 18 months for my entire county for a "home invasion" crime. Nine months for a burglary that wasn't a car break-in. If I narrow it down to the zip code of my suburbia on the outskirts of rural, I have to go back to 2019 for a single home invasion. My gated neighborhood has 2700 homes, I pulled the history and we've had two break-ins reported in the last 10 years. I loved using firearms for target and sport shooting but I never once believed a gun would be used for home defense. Here is ALL crimes reported in my county from County Sheriffs dataset which includes all other LEO responses for the past six months within a 5-mile drive of my house: I'm willing to bet 75% of our neighborhoods are have similar stats. WTF are we so afraid of our neighbors?
  19. As well as in bed, at the office, and especially when my daughter is in gymnastics practice, I tire of the gossip by the other gym moms/dads.
  20. I was really wanting to do a retro cave type of entertainment center recently but with Covid, all things suddenly went commodity and a SNES console went from $50 with all accessories to $250 and in another $20-30 per game and it got ridiculous. I turned to emulation. I liked it on tablets fine, adding a Bluetooth controller helped. I even built a web-hosted emulation station that ran everything through a browser from a server of mine so I could just grab a controller and plug a FireTV stick (or similar) and play from a browser anywhere. But a dedicated, portable like the above has sealed my fate. I can emulate from Atari to Dreamcast with no bugs or qualms. It's been a joy.
  21. I can add too! Also Chinese economy it would seem. I've been spending more time with retro gaming and loving replaying, also playing consoles I never owned from days passed. I recently bought a Anbernic RG353V handheld emulator console and have been loving it. So much so I bought the RG35xx for my wife since she kept stealing mine to play Tetris and Zelda!
  22. I'm late to the party here so I'll assume this was Easter Sunday. Yes, I did eat too much. We went to a brunch at a resort on the beach we've gone to a few times with friends. It's rather expensive at $110 a person. It's mostly about who you go with and the "atmosphere" but I hate going to buffet type without getting my monies worth. So in short, I ate too much. It was great and I regret nothing.
  23. I'm concerned but also looking at it in the eyes of someone who has the potential to capitalize on it. The past few years have been a very upward trend for us in income, career market value, and net worth. We spent many years being very frugal and penny-pinching that every new boon has just been another exercise in finding places for it to grow, not spend. I have solid and diversified investments and a decent amount of readily available cash. If the housing bubble ever drops, we're ready to purchase a few properties. This is the first time I have been able to view market uncertainty without worrying too terribly about it. Most of it is all speculation, of course. The only thing I can bank on reliably is if the recession is on the extremely long end (10+ years), I probably won't survive it, but my family will.
  24. Come to the sunshine state, you wear sandals all year.
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